Apples for Market
SIR,—Mr. Hincliffe has plenty to say about what may be called the decor of imported foreign fruit, but nothing at all about its taste and quality. Nor does he mention the fact that quantities of imported fruit are injected with chemicals for preservation purposes. The public taste in fruit and other foods has indeed become so uncritical that such malpractice; as the use of chemicals in food do not arouse half the concern they ought to do. Fruit is judged by its colour not its flavour, just as bread, deprived of its life-germ, by its whiteness not its nutritive virtue. I would venture to back the worst looking and worst packed English apple against the slickest of foreign ones for the goodness Of what is w;thin rather than without.
As for Mr. Hincliffe's recommendation for the compulsory spraying of our orchards, it is only one more warning among many of the need for watch and ward against tyrannical presumption and one-track-minded- ness of not a little modern science.—Yours faithfully, Reddings, Long Crendon, Bucks. H. J. MassmiCnatr.
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